Regulatory and Accrediting Agencies
Records and SOPs are considered elements of quality what?
Essentials
This recreates every step in the production and distribution of a unit of blood and all its components.
Audit Trail
These are set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) term (1987). They include policies that treat all body substances as potentially infectious.
Standard Precautions
These types of assays are performed on microplates using the same principles as in tube agglutination. Bar-coded samples and reagents are used and plates are automatically read using a camera.
Hemagglutination Assays
This causes citrate toxicity when transfusing blood.
Decrease in ionized calcium
This is a voluntary accrediting agency that publishes guidelines for members seeking accreditation. Their standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services provides the basis for the inspection and accreditation of blood banks.
AABB
This color ink is preferred in good recording keeping.
Blue
This defines policies of treating all body substances as potentially infectious and applying safety measures to reduce possible exposure
Universal Precautions
These type of assays detects RBC antibodies in serum or plasma. A positive test forms a smooth monolayer and a negative test form a button at the botto of the well.
solid-phase
Transplanting this organ is associated with massive hemorrhage due to hypocoagulability
liver
The occupational Safety and Health Act ensures safe and healthful working conditions and is enforced by this group.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
This is a process that develops or changes existing processes or procedures.
Change control
Chemicals are classified by corrosiveness, ignitability, reactivity, and what?
toxicity
SPRCA assays are used for what two kinds of antiglobulin tests?
Indirect and Direct Antiglobulin Tests
True or False : ABO compatibility is not essential for HPC transplants
true
This group is involved in assessing medical waste as specified in the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
This establishes that a specific process consistently produces a product that meets predetermined specifications.
Validation
Toxic substances must be accompanied by what?
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
In solid screening assays wells are precoated with which protein that has a high affinity for the Fc portion of immunoglobulins?
Protein A
This process removes abnormal cells,plasma, or plasma constituents to supply an essential substance that are absent, reduce the quantity of a particular antibody, modify mediators of inflammation, clear immune complexes, and to replace cellular elements
Therapeutic apheresis
This group enforces regulations to ensure the safety and efficacy of blood and blood components and reagents used or manufactured by blood establishments.
FDA
This standardizes an instrument.
Calibration
Which organization required MSDSs be available in the laboratory to all employees.
OSHA
About what percentage of patients with sickle cell disease will develop alloantibodies
25% to 30%